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fishyz
06-05-2006, 5:28 PM
I'm sure most of you know by know that a few weeks ago I went to a local river and caught a johnny darter and put it in a ten gallon tank with a juvanile Ameca splendas. Well last week I went to the same river with a freind and caught a two inch pumpkinseed sunfish and put it in the same tank as the darter and Ameca splendas. That was a bad idea but it was the only place I could put it. Well it was feeding well and stuff but after about three days (I think) the freakin' thing ate my Ameca splendas. This was fine with me except it was the last of about six of them that I got for forty dollars. Then we had to go to my cusin's house for the weekend and when I got back I found the thing with the darters tail stiking out of it's mouth:swear: and the darter was two inches long. So I just left the fish fo see if it would survive. Well today when I turned on the lights the back half of the darter was on the gravle and the pumpkinseed was fine. Sone the pumpkinseed will be in a 150g tank with some more pumpkins and plenty of live food. Sorry guys but I didn't gat pictures of it. Put I'll try to get some pictures of the pumpkinseed later.
Sunnies are aggressive feeders, lol.
fishyz
06-05-2006, 5:44 PM
I've learned. I'm glad the sunnie didn't die from that.
Bassman89
06-05-2006, 5:50 PM
I've learned. I'm glad the sunnie didn't die from that.
that really sucks...i had a similar situation like that happen to me not too long ago
fishyz
06-05-2006, 5:58 PM
Tell us what happened.
Chad55
06-05-2006, 6:56 PM
I have a one inch blue gill and he ate all 8 of my 1 inch creek chubs! Those things are tuff.
Chad
MV2006
06-05-2006, 7:04 PM
Cool , I want to see pics ,Come on I showed you pics of my green sunfish.I dont know if we have pumkin seeds in texas but i sure will look for some.
Pumpkinseeds are very aggressive.
I don't think the pumpkinseed is found there, for fish known in Texas check this list, better yet print it out and try to catch them all.
http://www.nanfa.org/NANFAregions/tx/Fishlist41.pdf
sandtiger
06-05-2006, 10:04 PM
Yup, sunfish will do that. My longear sunfish killed two tesselated darters and ate my female orangethroat darter. If I had known in the first place that he killed the tesselated I would have removed them but they were also new to the tank so I thought they just died from stress or something. Anyway, all that's with him now are a rock bass and four tadpole madtoms and he leaves them alone.
fishyz
06-06-2006, 4:45 PM
Alright pics are on the way I just have to upload them and post them. They'll be here in a minute.
Roberto C. Wells
06-06-2006, 4:52 PM
My dang pumpkinseed killed one of my Jack Ds
fishyz
06-06-2006, 4:57 PM
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/20820/si/IMG_4926/what/allfields/name/fishyz/name/fishyz
fishyz
06-06-2006, 4:58 PM
Dang it didn't work. Here I'll just give you the link to it http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/20820/si/IMG_4926/what/allfields/name/fishyz/name/fishyz. If anybody can help me with posting pics that would be great.
Go to the "frequently asked questions" forum, there is a sticky about posting pics.
Bassman89
06-06-2006, 7:15 PM
i had an 10 inch largemouth and it ate my 8 inch oscar...i walked in later and saw a bunch of scales from the oscar floatin around the tank so i know there was a struggle
fishyz
06-06-2006, 7:31 PM
Go to the "frequently asked questions" forum, there is a sticky about posting pics.
Thank guppy, you know everything.
fishyz
06-06-2006, 7:32 PM
i had an 10 inch largemouth and it ate my 8 inch oscar...i walked in later and saw a bunch of scales from the oscar floatin around the tank so i know there was a struggle
I think there was a struggle in this one to because the darter's tail was torn up.
fishyz
06-06-2006, 8:07 PM
I'll try the posting the pics again.
fishyz
06-06-2006, 8:09 PM
One more try.
fishyz
06-06-2006, 8:11 PM
Dang hold on let me see it the size is right.
fishyz
06-06-2006, 8:25 PM
It was to big. So here we go.
fishyz
06-06-2006, 8:26 PM
Yes it worked.:woot: :headbang2 Thanks guppy:thumbsup:
sandtiger
06-06-2006, 10:33 PM
I don't think that's a pumpkinseed, looks more like a longear to me...difficult to tell.
MV2006
06-07-2006, 12:50 AM
I don't think the pumpkinseed is found there, for fish known in Texas check this list, better yet print it out and try to catch them all.
http://www.nanfa.org/NANFAregions/tx/Fishlist41.pdf
Thats funny you sound like that pokemon guy , Gotta catch them all. Thanks for that link it has a whole lot info.:woot:
Bassman89
06-07-2006, 1:19 AM
I think there was a struggle in this one to because the darter's tail was torn up.
yes..unfortunatly the bass won in this case:swear:
fishyz
06-07-2006, 4:51 PM
It was more agresive than your oscar.
fishyz
06-07-2006, 4:53 PM
I don't think that's a pumpkinseed, looks more like a longear to me...difficult to tell.
It could be even though longears are endangerd here but it is still to small to be sure.
toogoodjohns
06-07-2006, 11:07 PM
well I got a green sunfish and he seems to be doing well in a tank with pencil fish, but he is only bout an inch and a half
toogoodjohns
06-07-2006, 11:07 PM
ps. I don't think it's a pumpkinseed...
Bassman89
06-08-2006, 12:31 AM
It was more agresive than your oscar.
it sure was...i kinda wish i woulda seen the battle lol
fishyz
06-08-2006, 4:27 PM
ps. I don't think it's a pumpkinseed...
What do you think it is then?
fishyz
06-08-2006, 4:28 PM
it sure was...i kinda wish i woulda seen the battle lol
And you caught the whole ting on video. Now that would be great.